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  • American Blind Pools
    American Blind Pools For Asian Private Companies By William Cate Published July 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]Youll...
  • Bootstrapping Your Company to Success
    Bootstrapping Your Company to Success By: William Cate Published August 1998 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]Often,...
  • M&A, the Shortcut to Business Success
    M&A, the Shortcut to Business Success By William Cate July 2004 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]An operating...
  • Go Public Young CFO, Go Public
    Go Public Young CFO, Go Public By William CateGoing West in the 1850s was the American path to business success. It made the railroads the dominant economic power in America in the 19th Century. Going...
  • NASD Brokerage Commissions
    NASD Brokerage Commissions By William Cate Published June 2001 To contact the author: Visit the Beowulf Investments website: [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.ne...
  • An IPO vs. A PIPE
    An IPO vs. A PIPE By William CatePrivate companies dream of doing an Initial Public Offering (IPO). They see it as the fast track to the money they need to grow their company. Its the primary reason that...
  • Things You Should Know About Stock Trading
    If you consider the possibility of trading stocks, there are some things you should know from the start. The first thing you should know is what exactly stocks trading mean. Well, first of all, stock shares...
  • List Your Company in the States
    List Your Company in the States By William Cate Published March 2000 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]The...
  • Professional Help
    Professional Help By William Cate Published March 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]You can avoid...
  • European Stock Exchange Listings
    European Stock Exchange Listings By William Cate Published July 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]...
  • The Hypocrisy of Insider Trading Laws
    Perhaps Walter Williams and I are the only two people on earth who can see the hypocrisy of insider trading laws. I somehow doubt it, though. Williams wrote a column about a year ago, lambasting these...
  • Who Does the SEC Serve?
    Who Does the SEC Serve? By William Cate Published May 2001 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]In 67 years,...
  • Due Diligence
    Due Diligence By William Cate Published December 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/] Before you pay...
  • Raising Money
    Raising MoneyIt isnt cheap. It isnt easy. The winners in the rush for risk capital are the CFOs (Chief Financial Officers) who understand how to play the money game.Private companies seek risk capital...
  • What The Company Conference Call Is!
    Many businesses have long used the services of a conference call company to spread their message to the investment community, where investment professionals could hear many firms in several days. To accomodate...
  • The Cost of Being a Public Company
    The Cost of Being a Public Company By William Cate August 2004 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]The Cost...
  • WHATS THE BETTER DEAL?" On Making Corporate Choices
    In 2004, your private NON-US company grossed $1 million. Your Fairy Godmother will give your company $10 million. You wont have to repay the money. Youll keep 100% equity in your company.Your alternative...
  • Pink Sheets Discover Disclosure.
    Once upon a time in the world of finance there were three kingdoms the most widely recognized was also the most snobbish and wealthiest its subjects were affluent and known worldwide. Its king was NYSE...
  • Your Stock Support Budget
    Your Stock Support Budget By William Cate Published November 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/] It...
  • It Takes Money
    It Takes Money By William Cate Published February 2000 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]TO RAISE MONEY....
  • Spinoffs
    Spinoffs By William Cate Published August 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/] Doing a spinoff is ten...
  • Corporate Records - Shareholder Inspections
    Youre conducting business as a corporation and various shareholders have kicked in investment money. Can shareholder inspections of corporate records occur?
    Emotional Attachment
    With small businesses,...
  • This Little Pinkie Went To Market
    Investing and You! By Steven Hastings UCD Investment ClubThis Little Pinkie Went To Market!In the world of investments, treading into the unknown can be a very hazardous journey. While the majority of...
  • The Two Reasons to Take Your Company Public
    The Two Reasons to Take Your Company Public As Told in Two Modern Fables By William Cate August 2004 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/gl...
  • Exit Strategies for Public Companies
    Exit Strategies for Public Company Insiders By William Cate Published January 2001 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]...
  • The End of Reverse Mergers
    The End of Reverse Mergers By William CateReverse Mergers are the most expensive way possible to take your private company public in the United States. While the front costs are usually under US$75,000,...
  • Wheres the Money?
    Wheres the Money? By William Cate July 2004 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]To create a US$100 million...
  • The Ideal Length of Your Business Plan
    How long should a business plan be? A business plan needs to be whatever length is required to excite the investor, prove that management truly understands the market, and detail the execution strategy....
  • Insider Trading
    Insider trading is usually associated with illegal actions. However, there are both legal and illegal trading activities in the market. Insider Trading "Insider trading" is a term most of us associate...
  • The Correct Use of Shares
    The Correct Use of Shares William Cate July 2004 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]Textbooks on Going Public...
  • Wheres the Pea?
    Wheres the Pea? By William Cate[http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]The Shell Game is alive and well in the...
  • Venture Capital Profits
    Venture Capital Profits By William CateThe Perfect WorldIn a perfect world, stocks markets would create jobs, produce higher standards of living for the community and ensure greater investor profits. We...
  • Accounting Police: Do They Exist?
    This article decribes how adherance to accounting principles is regulated Who created accounting principles? Who sets and revises accounting standards? What if you dont follow all the rules, do you go...
  • How to Get Started on Your Marketing Plan
    When developing or updating a marketing plan, knowing where to start is often a challenge. To better develop effective marketing strategies, begin by gathering information about both your business and...
  • Investing Stock Market ABC’s
    While most folks today trust mutual funds and their professional managers with their investments, its still important to understand the basics of the stock market. Although investing in individual stocks...
  • Go Multinational
    Go Multinational By William CateIf you are marketing your quality product or service in any country, you should be selling it in every country. Going Multinational is more than increasing your access to...
  • What is rule 15c211
    What is rule 15c211?15c211 Was designed to allow fully reporting public companies to have their securities quoted on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board ("OTCBB") by filing some simple disclosure.Rule...
  • Professional Help Funding Your Company
    Professional Help Funding Your Company By William Cate Published April 2001 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]...
  • The Global Village Investment Club
    The Global Village Investment Club By William Cate Published November 2003 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]Angels...
  • Why should I use penny Shares to build wealth?
    A strategic question. Why indeed?1. A penny share would usually refer to a share available for less than $1.00. This makes the aquisition of shares manageable by even the most modest investment budget.2....
  • Sabanes and the Cost of Going Public in America
    Sabanes and the Cost of Going Public in America by William CateCost Rising RapidlyA recently published study by Foley & Lardner show that the Sabanes-Oxley Act of 2002 increased the costs of being an...
  • Know the Risk Capital Rules
    Know the Rules to Get Risk Capital By William CateAre you looking for investment money? I HAVE money to invest. I run a Venture Capital Club [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]...
  • Why Go Public?
    Why Go Public? By William Cate Published September 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] Or, visit the Global Village Investment Club Website: [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvest...
  • When Is The Best Time TO Take Your Company Public?
    When Is The Best Time TO Take Your Company Public?
    CEOs often call and ask me what the revenues and net profit should be before going public, they seem to think that there is a magic number that qualifies...
  • Ready For A Business Recovery?
    Ready For A Business Recovery?by Robert A. KellyWho wants to face the challenges of a business recovery without a ton of firepower? Especially when getting your piece of the action almost certainly depends...
  • The Cost of Going Public in the United States
    The Cost of Going Public in the United States By William Cate [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] From Equity Finance Solutions March 2000The following data is taken from "Going Public"...
  • Is your company ready to go public?
    Is your company ready to go public? How will you decide whether your company is ready to go public or not? There is no magic number or formula which qualifies a private company to transform into a public...
  • Coporate Website Content Design Failures
    Examining the failures of the web content design of many enormous consumer corporations. When you think of the worlds most successful businesses, what names come to mind? Most likely, consumer-oriented...
  • Funding Indian Companies with PIPEs
    Funding Indian Companies with PIPEs By William CateIn 2003, private equity investments in India totaled over one billion U. S. Dollars. Over eighty investors risked their money in over ninety Indian companies....
  • Business Branding
    Branding is very important to a business, whether it is an online or offline business. Your brand will be the first impression the public has of your business and could very well be the most important...
  • NASD Bid and Ask
    Nasdaq and the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB) trade on a Bid and Ask format. Bid is the price an investor is willing to pay for a stock. Ask is the price that a shareholder is willing to sell...
  • Burying Your Companys Stock
    Burying Your Companys Stock By William Cate July 2004 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]The reason that...
  • Going Public Comparison Chart
    Going Public Comparison Chart By William Cate http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulatory compliance requirements are directly related to the...
  • The Economics of Real Deals
    The Economics of Real Deals vs Selling Smoke & Mirrors By William Cate Published September 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvi...
  • Credible Numbers
    Credible Numbers By William CateCash flow numbers are not credible. They never reflect business reality. Using them in a business plan tells a potential investor that you are either stupid or dishonest....
  • Selecting An Equity Finance Consultant
    Selecting An Equity Finance Consultant By William CateMost Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) realize that its a hundred times easier to raise venture capital for a public company than a private company....
  • The Pink Sheet (OTC) Market for CFOs
    The Pink Sheet (OTC) Market for CFOs
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    William Cate The Over-the-Counter Market (OTC) is the Elephants Graveyard for companies like Enron, WorldCom or Global Crossing. The reason these companies have...
  • Is Your Company Ready To Go Public?
    Is Your Company Ready to Go Public? By William Cate Published November 1998 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]Youre...
  • Is Your Public Relations Investment Paying Off?
    Youll never know unless you set the right kind of goal at the beginning - a goal against which progress can be measured, and a goal that flows directly from public relations strategies and tactics...
  • Two IPO Academic Resources
    Two IPO Academic Information Resources By William Cate Published August 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]About...
  • Incorporating Tips - Capitalization
    Capitalizing a new business entity is a critical step of the formation process. Failing to take the step can lead to serious legal problems if the entity is ever sued. So, what is capitalization and what...
  • OTCBB Shells
    Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB) Shell Prices By William Cate Published July 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]You...
  • Creating an Irrestible Brand
    Hard times create amazing successes. Despite all the talk today of an oversupply of goods and services, industry consolidation, menacing imports, stalled prices, and shrinking margins, a few remarkable...
  • Corporate Records - What to Keep
    Whether youve created a corporation or limited liability company, you must maintain records. Heres a primer on the basic corporate records you need to maintain.
    Corporate Records
    When forming a corporation...
  • Non-U.S. Companies Public in the States
    Non-U. S. Companies Going Public in the States By William Cate Published November 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]...
  • Why I'll Bet on the Bull
    Why Ill Bet on the Bull By William Cate Published May 2002 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]Last week,...
  • The Shell Trap
    The Shell Trap By William Cate[http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]Publicly traded shells overcome two of...
  • Selling Corporate Shares - Be Careful
    One of the touted advantages of owning a corporation is the ease in transferring shares. In many cases, this assumed benefit is simply wrong.
    Transfer Shares
    According to "experts", using a corporation...
  • Stock Support
    Your Stock Support Budget By William Cate Published February 2000 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/] It...
  • Structuring Your Company
    Structuring Your Company By William Cate Published October 1998 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/] In Canada,...
  • Basics of stock market
    Financial markets provide their participants with the most favorable conditions for purchase/sale of financial instruments they have inside. Their major functions are: guaranteeing liquidity, forming assets...
  • Reverse Merger Suicide
    Reverse Merger Suicide By William Cate Published December 2004 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]Chief...
  • Reverse Merger: one of several options.
    Reverse Merger; One of Several OptionsSmall and mid-size companies looking to go public usually think IPO (Initial Public offering), but find it difficult to get an underwriter to look at them. They go...
  • Specialists for OTCBB and Nasdaq Stocks
    An orderly market should be the goal of every public company. Sharp rises or falls in share price attract regulators. A rapidly rising share price feeds upon itself and guarantees a share price collapse....
  • More than Fundamentals
    More Than Fundamentals By William Cate[http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]Sound Fundamentals are vital to...
  • Venture Capitalists
    Venture Capitalists By William Cate Published March 1998 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]They invest...
  • Information Sources - Conference Calls
    Companies listed on the various stock exchanges have long held analyst conferences to spread their message to the investment community. Often, sponsors such as Hambrecht and Quist have held conferences...
  • Minority Shareholders - Fighting The Man
    Investing in a corporate entity is fairly standard practice in our society. Problems arise when you own a small percentage of shares, but disagree with the direction the majority shareholders are taking...
  • Venture vs Vulture Capitalists
    Venture vs. Vulture Capitalists By William Cate Published July 1999 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]In...

 

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